id
	11888
Url
	https://chloe.cnr.it/s/BiDiAr/item/11888
Resource template
	Academic Article
Resource class
	bibo:AcademicArticle
Title
	On the Shifting Border Between Mesopotamia and the West:  Seven Seasons of Joint Turkish-German Excavations at Oylum Höyük
Creator
	Özgen, Engin
	Helwing, Barbara
Date
	2003
Language
	eng
Abstract
	When approaching the modern Turkish-Syrian border from the wide plains of North-Western Syria, following the Qoueiq River, the traveller will encounter an East-West barrier at the southernmost foothills of the Taurus Mountains, the Resul Osman Dağları. Called Halap'a Bakan Dağları (literally: 'The mountains looking to Aleppo") by the local population, the Resul Osman Dağları and the Kurt Dağları that run perpendicular to the former in a North-South direction form steep ridges offering a wide view over the Syrian Plain. This well-watered plain is drained to the south by the Qoueiq River and its tributaries. The Qoueiq, the ancient Xhalos River (Xenophon, Anabasis I4,9), passes Aleppo only to reach a dead end in the al-Matah swamps to the south. It marks the continental watershed between the Orontes tributaries to the west, that flow into the Mediterranean, and the Euphrates to the east, that form the major waterway of Mesopotamia and flowing to the Persian-Arabic Gulf.
Is Part Of
	Anatolica
Cited by
	11042
Doi
	https://doi.org/10.2143/ANA.29.0.2015512
Pages
	61-85
Short title
	On the Shifting Border Between Mesopotamia and the West
Volume
	29
Homepage
	https://www.zotero.org/groups/5293298/bidiar/items/7Q2D7CW6/item-list

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